Slipjoints for the outdoors

This weekend it was this one.

Opinel #8 INOX "garden knife".

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Good knife for cleaning fish, preparing lunch and whatever else. I prefer a single blade slippy in the woods cause it's easier to keep clean and gunk free.

But I like trappers, stockmen, copperheads and sodbusters also.
 
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Not slippies, but pretty traditional. These 2 (Western & Case) have accounted for more game than all my other knives combined.
 
In do sometimes substitute or combine one of my stockman with a vic farmer..but would feel totally on a prolonged stay with a good slipjoint a small axe and maybe a folding saw...
 
Vic Farmer is one hell of a SAK. My preferred SAK to carry if there is one. Extra heavy duty scales and thicker blade, you won't find a better companion other than the OHT maybe.
 
Most, if not all, camping I have done, has been done with a slipjoint.

At first, it was a cheap copy of an SAK. I bought a combo-pack from Lowes for twenty dollars, the brand was Sheffield, and had about five blades in it. I recognized the Sheffield name from sword and gun stuff, and bought what I thought were good quality. They were decent, but not really good.

Next, I got the Case Medium Stockman, which has accompanied me on many adventures. I have posted about it many times. After getting a Lansky, i was able to get mine sharp again, and I keep it that way now.

Of course, there are always SAKs. My first was a Recruit. After that, I went on a locking knife binge, but when I summited Mitchell, I carried my only Leatherman, a Kick. Slipjoints have also been fishing with me many times. My personal choice for an outdoor slippy would be my Sodbuster Jr in yellow and CV- hard to lose, sharp, and with a very strong backspring and a very evven patina for rust protection.
 
Jim,

Hard to beat the price on those soddies too...
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Tell me about. Min ewas 18.00, shipped, from SMKW. It was on sale. I think it's normally 22.00. Heck of a knife for the money. Along with SAKs and Moras, that must be the best value in the knife industry.
 
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